Reading I
Dan 9:4b-10
And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments.
We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee.
O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned.
But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee:
And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, our God, to walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.